Getting started with JSP on my WHP

[James Bucanek <su...@gloaming.com>]

Good morning,

I just bought a web account from a local web hosting provider.  I 
wanted to start doing some JSP and my current WHP doesn't support JSP.

I'm not new to Java and have written a few servlets in my time.  But 
I am new to Tomcat and JSP.  My WHP has minimal (read no) 
documentation, so I'm now wondering how to get started.

My WHP is running Linux Red Hat, Apache, and Tomcat.  I've got an 
account and a web directory on the system (which all work, by the 
way).

Basically, how do I set up my existing servlets and get JSP pages 
running?  Where does my WEB_INF/web.xml file go?

I have several tutorials, but they all explain how to set up Tomcat 
for a machine that you own.  What I'm looking for is a simple 
tutorial for setting up servlets and JSP on a machine that's been 
configured for use by many users.

Example: All of the tutorials I have say to set up your web app 
configuration files, then restart Tomcat.  Obviously I can't restart 
Tomcat on my provider's machine.  So when does/will Tomcat pick up 
new web applications or changes to servlet JARs etc.?

Thanks

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James Bucanek
<ma...@gloaming.com>